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In the [twentieth century]?, philosophers in Europe and the United States took diverging paths. The so-called [analytic philosophers]?, including Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, were centered in [[Oxford and Cambridge, and were joined by logical empiricists emigrating from Austria and Germany (e.g., [Rudolph Carnap]?) and their students and others in the United States (e.g., W. V. Quine) and other English-speaking countries. On the [continent of Europe]? (especially Germany and France), the phenomenologist? Germans Edmund Husserl and [Martin Heidegger]? led the way, followed soon by Jean-Paul Sartre and other existentialists; this led via other "isms" to postmodernism, which dominates schools of [critical theory]? as well as philosophy departments in France and Germany.
In the [twentieth century]?, philosophers in Europe and the United States took diverging paths. The so-called [analytic philosophers]?, including Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, were centered in Oxford and Cambridge, and were joined by logical empiricists emigrating from Austria and Germany (e.g., [Rudolph Carnap]?) and their students and others in the United States (e.g., W. V. Quine) and other English-speaking countries. The [continental philosophy]? was led by the German phenomenologists? Edmund Husserl and [Martin Heidegger]?, followed soon by Jean-Paul Sartre and other existentialists; this led via other "isms" to postmodernism, which dominates schools of [critical theory]? as well as philosophy departments in France and Germany.

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John Dewey was an American philosopher and founder of the school of philosophy known as pragmatism. He had an enormous influence on American education - indeed, he is sometimes referred to as the ?father of American education?.
John Dewey was an American philosopher and founder of the school of philosophy known as pragmatism?. He had an enormous influence on American education - indeed, he is sometimes referred to as the "father of American education".

Important contemporary (or almost contemporary) philosophers include Karl Popper who investigated questions surrounding the scientific method, Peter Singer who formulated a radical practical ethics, [John Rawls]? with his theory of distributive justice, and Robert Nozick, a libertarian political philosopher.

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